Post Ak7ZOyItIzPREP5tY0 by nyx@social.xenofem.me
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 (DIR) Post #Ak5F5moVPkDSh5XIYK by nyx@social.xenofem.me
       2024-07-19T09:01:30.564558Z
       
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       just remember everyone, we'll still be talking about this Crowdstrike incident a decade from now just like the left-pad incident. nothing ever changes because the tech industry is fundamentally broken and worthless on every level.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak5FpNsUSO9og68tkW by nyx@social.xenofem.me
       2024-07-19T09:09:45.421739Z
       
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       oh btw this could lead to people literally dying. nothing will change though.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak5FyMCw2IsQ6Vz4oC by hakui@tuusin.misono-ya.info
       2024-07-19T09:11:56.389892Z
       
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       @nyx in a way computers and finance are quite similar
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak5GTzizAAhpdn3rWK by mia@movsw.0x0.st
       2024-07-19T09:15:16.709Z
       
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       @nyx just like nothing changed after LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs, nothing changed after heartbleed, nothing changed after equifax, nothing changed after mirai, nothing changed after locky, petya and wannacry
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak5GbjIK8KaR06HLbU by Alephwyr@chitter.xyz
       2024-07-19T09:16:35Z
       
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       @nyx The good news is that in two decades nothing computer relevant will be touched by humans anymore
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak5GbjzZXXBJAEVt0y by nyx@social.xenofem.me
       2024-07-19T09:17:11.646832Z
       
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       @Alephwyr doubt
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak5GhBeK8d1CODAgoy by nyx@social.xenofem.me
       2024-07-19T09:17:35.770630Z
       
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       @mia "A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke."
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak5HrE9FnnNWzPzS4G by nyx@social.xenofem.me
       2024-07-19T09:32:30.924900Z
       
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       @ridiche almost every piece of computing infrastructure that is critical to the functioning of our civilization -- hospitals, government stuff, banks, basically all Fortune 500s -- runs on Windows, other than some exceptional cases like old mainframes that can't be replaced because literally no one knows how to program them anymore.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak6LDPIXWRFMxfYrCa by tess@social.xenofem.me
       2024-07-19T12:05:33.096993Z
       
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       @nyx @ridiche The old servers nobody can program are being replaced by windows servers. Source: I'm one of the idiots doing it.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak7ZILbSHR39SxcPvE by meltedbrain_y2k@social.xenofem.me
       2024-07-19T19:33:13.053112Z
       
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       @nyx It's so sad how much potential to free us from drudgery and enable expression computers have and instead we employ them almost exclusively for box-checking bullshit.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak7ZLNmGeVPB4w7hsO by meltedbrain_y2k@social.xenofem.me
       2024-07-19T19:28:34.253352Z
       
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       @nyx @ridiche I feel like those ancient mainframes are the last time business had software that just werked and we've just been layering increasingly leaky abstraction on top of one another ever since. Learning COBOL to get them working again is the future of tech.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ak7ZOyItIzPREP5tY0 by nyx@social.xenofem.me
       2024-07-20T11:58:46.874319Z
       
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       @meltedbrain_y2k @ridiche I've considered this before but the problem is most COBOL mainframes in production have a whole lot more going on that you need to know about besides just knowing COBOL. like there are all these other subsystems that you only learn by having access to themor so I've heard